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Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Staff and Administration Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCI-2016-004

Scope and Content

Staff and Administration records consist of correspondence, minutes and reports related to various departments and individual staff members. Included are departmental reports from 1941-1978 and operations surveys from 1932-1960. Of particular interest is correspondence related to Janet L. Roper, who served as SCI’s House Mother from 1915-1943, founding the Missing Seamen Bureau in 1919. Also included is a manuscript copy of an unpublished biography of Roper written by Jonathan Finn, as well as a manuscript copy of short biographical excerpts written by Roper’s daughter in a ledger book in 1939.

Dates

  • 1902-1978

Creator

Extent

3 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

Arranged in alphabetical order according to creator and subject file.

Title
Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Staff and Administration Records
Status
Completed
Author
Processed by Johnathan Thayer, 2011. Revised and machine readable finding aid created by Dan Brenner, Spring, 2016.
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
Queens College Library, CUNY
Benjamin Rosenthal Library RO317
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing 11367 USA us